Neuroscience has directly bearing upon daily experience and the quality of life. These links are to pages which are hopefully accessible to non-experts. On each of these topics, there is a lot of scientific literature.
I am not much of a philosopher but there are some schools which I find appealing.
Links between nutrition, health, environment, and the politics behind food.
There are some serious attempts to combine economic gain with ecological sustainability, such as the Cradle-to-Cradle concept of MBDC.